Life Game In Other World
Chapter 199: The Text on the Tower (Long - , Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 199: Chapter 199: The Text on the Tower (Long Chapter, Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets)

"Don’t look up!"

Liu Nan hastily shouted, then she pulled He Ao and the Beetle into hiding beneath a slope.

The land that had once been bright was instantly engulfed by a pitch-black Shadow, as if the world had slipped back into night.

An icy wind passed through the silent hills, carrying with it the wailing sound of the Undead crying out.

"Woo—"

The mournful wails arose in the sky, drawing closer.

"Its vision is poor," Liu Nan leaned close to He Ao, clutching his hand tightly and whispered with her head down, "as long as you don’t see it, it won’t see you."

He Ao glanced at the girl gripping his hand tightly, nodded, and said nothing.

The great wailing finally drew nearer, hovering in the air above where the two were hiding.

A profound sense of sorrow intermingled with the wailing, echoing through all the surrounding space.

He Ao felt a strong surge of curiosity rise within him, compelling him to look up at the source of the lamentation.

By his side, the dust-covered girl seemed about to lift her head as well.

He Ao glanced at the tight grasp of the girl’s hand, and with his other hand, he pressed down on Liu Nan’s head, "Don’t look."

Liu Nan then came to her senses, she glanced at He Ao with an expression that was somewhat frightened and nodded.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the wailing in the sky finally began to fade away.

The pitch-black night gradually lightened until the bright sunshine once again spread across the land.

The two did not leave immediately but waited another ten minutes before they slowly emerged from behind the slope.

The three suns in the sky were still twinkling.

He Ao looked around; there had been some harmless animals like deer in their vicinity, but now these creatures lay stiff on the ground, in postures of looking up.

He Ao walked over to a deer, touched its stiff body gently, finding no hint of warmth, "Dead."

"How did it manage to follow us here?"

Liu Nan released He Ao’s hand and, somewhat puzzled, looked around.

That morning, the two had traveled roughly two hundred kilometers and were already far from the octopuses’ habitat.

"I don’t know."

He Ao glanced at Liu Nan and shook his head lightly.

Shifting his gaze to their surroundings, the closer they got to the tall tower, the fewer city buildings there were, eventually giving way to a vast wasteland.

The spot they were standing on was at the boundary between city and wilderness.

"Let’s find another place to eat first."

He Ao waved his hand and headed towards the small city ruins covered in weeds.

Liu Nan followed behind him, mounted on the Beetle.

This place seemed to have been at the edge of the city, but the buildings did not remain as well-preserved as in other cities, with leaning and collapsed skyscrapers everywhere, and wild trees and weeds obscuring the cityscape.

The wilderness was encroaching here, and the creations left by human civilization were all ultimately returning to the primitive state.

Perhaps in a few hundred years, this location would be completely reclaimed by wilderness, returning to the starting point of everything.

He Ao found a building on the hilltop with a good view and walked in.

He had just entered when a Black Shadow rushed towards him.

It was a robot fashioned in the image of a human female, rusty and marked by the passage of time; its once beautiful synthetic skin had decayed, leaving only its Iron Body husk.

She seemed to possess little intelligence, only knowing to charge at He Ao frantically, to drive him away from the building.

He Ao smoothly stepped aside, dodging the robot’s attack.

Bang—

Accompanied by a soft noise, the robot stumbled on the uneven cement floor, tumbled out, and rolled down the slope.

Liu Nan, having dodged the tumbling robot, dismounted from the Beetle and looked at He Ao with a puzzled expression, "What is this?"

He Ao shook his head, indicating he didn’t know either.

He continued inside until where the sunlight reached its end.

In the building’s dark Shadow, an old baby carriage was creaking and swaying slowly.

The carriage’s main structure was once plastic, but most of the plastic parts had decayed and broken, and where it had failed, rough rusty steel plates were nailed together to maintain the rough shape of the carriage.

He Ao walked up to the swaying baby carriage, which was covered by an extensive piece of what appeared to be intact fibrous fabric, slightly bulging in the middle as if indeed someone was inside.

He Ao gently stretched out his hand, and the moment his fingertips touched the fibrous fabric, it burst into dust, revealing what lay beneath.

It was a mostly intact infant skeleton.

The robot had been here all along, gently rocking the carriage, lulling the child to sleep.

And the child inside the carriage had long since slipped into an eternal slumber.

He Ao withdrew his hand and said softly, "Let’s go, we’ll find another place."

"Okay."

Liu Nan behind him nodded lightly and followed his footsteps away from that place.

No sooner had the two left the building than a landscaping robot, carrying large shears on its back, approached not far ahead on the path and began trimming the branches of a wild-grown tree by the road.

Behind it, every tree had been pruned into a neat shape.

Just like how the city had appeared hundreds of years ago, in its glorious times.

If the city ruins were the carcass of human civilization,

Then these still-functioning intelligent machines were like the lingering Undead of human civilization left in this world.

Shortly after the two left, the female-shaped robot climbed back up the slope, bit by bit.

She returned to the baby carriage and continued to sway it gently.

Her throat vibrated for a moment, emitting a rustling sound.

These sounds could no longer be distinguished as any specific language, only the distant and gentle melodies echoed.

As if singing for the one in eternal slumber.

——

He Ao finally chose the top floor of a building half-tilted into the ground at the bottom of the hill.

There, he set up a barbecue grill.

Exploration was exploration, fleeing was fleeing, but barbecue was indispensable.

He Ao took out the meat of a leopard-like exotic beast he had killed on the road from his backpack and placed it on the grill.

If pollution wasn’t a concern, the taste of these exotic beasts was really quite good.

Anyway, He Ao didn’t have to worry about pollution.

Liu Nan glared at He Ao with a puffed-up look, then went back to nibbling her compressed biscuits.

He Ao leisurely grilled the meat, but just as it was about to be done, a hawk’s screech suddenly came from the sky.

A massive bird with a wingspan of five meters glanced at He Ao’s barbecue grill and dived from the sky, swooping toward He Ao’s meat.

He Ao quickly picked up the meat and dodged the attack.

"Hahaha, that’s for hogging it all to yourself."

Liu Nan laughed heartily while watching He Ao being attacked by the hawk.

But she still quickly got up and took a sniper rifle from her back.

"No need."

He Ao shook his head, put the meat back on the grill, and then drew out a bone sword from behind him.

The giant hawk circled in the sky for a while, then let out another long scream and rushed towards the barbecue once more.

He Ao leaped up right away and fiercely grabbed the giant hawk’s claws, stabbing at it with his sword.

The giant hawk, stabbed by He Ao, could not maintain its form and frantically tried to shake He Ao off.

But its struggles were ultimately futile; as He Ao fiercely stabbed into its neck, its body shook and fell toward the wilderness aside.

"He Ao?!"

Liu Nan seemed not to expect He Ao to be so rash; she peered over the edge of the rooftop, then quickly ran towards the staircase.

But before she could descend the stairs, she collided with He Ao returning with his bloody bone sword.

"Are you okay?"

Liu Nan looked at He Ao with some concern.

"I’m fine," He Ao shook his head; pointing at his backpack, "Tonight we’ll have bird meat."

——

This time the exotic beast meat was abundant and rich; after eating, the energy in He Ao’s dantian was substantially full.

Then he did not trigger it right away but manipulated the ’Qi’ in his body to coat the dagger, roughly shaping a suitable point on the tip of the bone sword.

He then used the shavings of bone to grind down an acceptable blade on both sides of the bone sword, though not too sharp, it was capable of cutting general things now.

The structure of this bone sword was exceptionally close-knit, showing no signs of cavities.

He Ao examined the bone sword in his hand; now, it somewhat resembled a sword.

By the time everything was done, it was well into the afternoon.

He Ao and Liu Nan continued on their way.

On the stretch of road that followed, they largely left the ruins of the city behind, encountering only the vast and boundless wilderness.

The closer they got to the tower, the stronger the transcendent creatures they encountered became.

They once came across a forest full of vines; the entire forest was the proliferation of a single plant, attracting nearby animals to explore before devouring them.

Such were fairly normal; some creatures possessed more bizarre abilities.

There was one giant dragonfly that could halt any conflict, acting as a peacemaker in a desolate region, but the creatures reconciled by it must offer a part of themselves as its nourishment.

There was one humanoid creature that caused amnesia; once someone’s gaze shifted away from it, they would forget all information related to it.

Ultimately, He Ao and Liu Nan, back to back, kept each other reminded until they managed to kill the creature.

There was also a giant cat that wove clothing from pelts to wear, looking at a distance like a beautiful girl, provoking a subconscious urge to approach.

Any creature that came close would fall in front of it as if drunk and then be skinned alive by it for clothing material.

However, these exotic beasts posed little threat to He Ao; many ended up as meat in He Ao’s cloth bag.

So much so that the cloth bag He Ao carried wasn’t enough.

Some exotic beasts also dropped transcendental items that seemed quite intriguing.

Even though not every exotic beast dropped transcendental items, He Ao ultimately obtained only two: the dragonfly dropped a pair of sticky-together wings resembling a balance scale, and the cat dropped a multicolored crystal ring.

On their journey, they encountered the massive and wailing shadow several times but managed to avoid it safely each time.

As they drew closer to the tower, the shadow no longer appeared.

At dawn the next day, the two finally arrived in front of the tower.

Although He Ao was mentally prepared, the grandeur of the tower still slightly exceeded his expectations.

It presented a massive cylindrical shape, with a diameter of at least ten kilometers, and its top pierced straight into the clouds; He Ao looked up and could see only the blue sky and white clouds pierced by the tower.

Perhaps the very top of the tower had entered into space.

The place where the two first reached the tower had no entrance in the wall; after walking around the tower for a while, they saw an immense black door with a twisted gap smashed into it.

There were seven characters at the top of the door, presumably the name of the tower, but He Ao didn’t recognize all of them, only three.

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